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John Durham Peters
John Durham Peters is the A. Craig Baird Professor in Communication Studies at the University of Iowa. He is the author of Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication, Courting the Abyss: Free Speech and the Liberal Tradition, and The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media.
John Durham Peters is also featured on the bonus CD track for Volume 47, where he talks about how the nineteenth-century rise of new communications technologies was related to various forms of spiritualism.